I have TONS of content overdue– bear with me, I’ll begin tomorrow. Meanwhile here are more of Teddy’s amazing tree dachsies, this time in hot pursuit of a feral cat…
Tag: Hunting
Pakistan
Ali Hasnain hunts in a slightly grander and very traditional way– on a friend’s estate, with beaters! (His rookie of the year, Sonya, is listening alertly for them in the pic). This hunt took place in a watery oasis in desert country. We hope to get more reports from him including on falconry if he …
Redtail & Rabbits
From around the same time as the photo below– maybe 36 years ago (I had the hawk for six years)– our biggest day, my biggest ever.
Just for Fun
A photo taken on top of the hill in Shutesbury Mass, ca 1974, of me with my redtail tiercel Cinnamon (still one of the best gamehawks I ever had and oddly, like one of the more recent best birds, stolen after years with me), and a friend who is holding my intact rather huge albino …
Tiger Reading
John Vaillant did a reading last night at Riverrun Books in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for his wonderful new book on Amur tigers, poachers, and rangers. I had participated in part by reviewing The Tiger here. I’ll let him configure the whole tale for you, but Dr Hypercube was the pivotal figure, and blogged it here. …
The Elegant “.275”
Locavore Hunter, in a post on teaching new hunters to build their own rifles, has a nice quote on my favorite cartridge, perhaps more commonly called the 7 X 57: “The 7mm Mauser has a fascinating history that I won’t get into just now, but suffice to say that the sort of person who favors …
One Link…
Long day, more visitors coming. But my speculations on the nature of the passenger pigeon at Living Bird are now online. Check them out and let me know what you think?
Vizslas!
Andrew Campbell of The Regal Vizsla, who blogs on bird dogs and sometimes Mongolia, came through with his boys on the way to a training session in the mountains of Arizona. He brought good talk and a bottle of Applejack, something wonderful from New York state we had never tried. His boys were fascinated by …
Three shotguns (and a look at a fourth)
…which will do almost everything. First, a magnum on the French Darne sliding-breech action. A little expensive to shoot, and a bit “kicky”, but able to take everything up to the largest birds. Second, a Stephen Grant Best London pigeon gun, with a sidelever action and rebounding hammers in the last stage of hammer evolution. …
Two “Moderate” Rifles
This post is partially a continuation off the “Two Revolvers” post— which brought the kind of response I hope this will– and partly in response to this wonderful post by Joshua Stark on the .30-30. (Josh actually has THREE blogs you should read– the others are here and here). I’ll let Josh speak for the …